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Belly on up to Mama Sheila’s table
Soul food plus vegan, Mexican, Somali dishes all from scratch There’s a new chef in town and her name is Mama Sheila Brathwaite, owner of Mama Sheila’s Soul Food Kitchen. Say goodbye to bland. No longer need you bring your meal back to the office or home with spice and sauce packets to help it […]
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Black Business Spotlight: Dimensions in Hair a family affair
Dimensions In Hair is more than a barbershop where gentlemen tighten up and a beauty salon where ladies get their cute on. It is a North Minneapolis community fixture and cultural cornerstone. Serving and supported by friends, neighbors and general folk, the business is long a familiar fact of everyday life. In the same regard […]
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Start-up enterprise puts the ‘special’ in special events
Fledgling boutique company Fabulously Authentic may not be a small operation all that much longer. Into its second year, the operation shows a trademark sign of success — razor-sharp event planner Stacey Clark at the helm, specializing in tailor-made client satisfaction. If you have an investment in putting a product or organization in the public […]
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Chef Earl serves a brisket to die for — if you can catch up to him
Stupid Hot is one of his 31 sauces Food trucks during the summer are all over downtown Minneapolis. But don’t look there for Chef Earl. He could be found anywhere across the Twin Cities. “I’ve been cooking for 40 years,” said Earl, a food vendor. He and his wife Felicia set up shop weekly at […]
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Kaskaskia Engineering hires former MnDot official
Keith Baker has been named vice president of Minnesota Operations for Belleville-Ill.-based Kaskaskia Engineering Group, LLC (KEG)
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Hoping for a raise? Here’s how to ask.
Before the market downturn of 2008, many workers could depend on receiving an annual or semi-annual raise. For some employees, this is no longer the case.
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Sister Spokesman discusses the importance of planning ahead
Have you ever counted the cost of all the little guilty pleasure items you buy throughout the week and found yourself surprised at how much these seemingly small purchases add up? Using a $5 cup of coffee as one example, the expert panelists at the “Sister Spokesman Life Planning from 18 – 62” event April 2, broke down ways in which spending carelessly can prove costly in the long run.
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Meet the Sister Spokesman panelists to help you plan for life
Sister Spokesman’s “Life Planning from 18-62,” Saturday April 4, is sure to be a money-making event for many. No, you will not win any money or get a check, but if you come with the intent to listen and learn, you may gain a personal strategy for saving and managing money, thus making more money for you and your family in the long run.
Select panelists include: Natasha Phillips, Joseph Dillard, and Vicki Casey-Steward, who will share their expertise on life planning. Tamiko Morgan, medical director at Metropolitan Health Care, is co-organizer of the Sister Spokesman event. She is also a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Inc., and serves on the programming and planning committee for the sorority. One of the sorority’s goals is financial literacy.